Tower Of Fantasy Launches Today On PC And Mobile - Are You Jumping In? | MMORPG.com

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Tower Of Fantasy Launches Today On PC And Mobile - Are You Jumping In? | MMORPG.com

Tower of Fantasy's long-awaited launch happens today, bringing the open-world MMORPG to PC and mobile devices.

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starstorm777

Yes!! I am jumpin in

Valentina

yes

Slapshot1188

Not a chance

maskedweasel

I will indeed.

Tiller

Yeah, but I'll probably get bored of it in an hour.

Dattelis

As long as people know its gacha, then it is what it is, just dont be surprised seeing people wanting particular people that have a particular number of stars on their weapon to join groups. One thing I do have a gripe with is that the 'healer' characters (except I think Nemesis, which is on the limited pull banner), dont get their heals until you get at least one duplicate pull.....

maskedweasel

Dattelis said:

As long as people know its gacha, then it is what it is, just dont be surprised seeing people wanting particular people that have a particular number of stars on their weapon to join groups. One thing I do have a gripe with is that the 'healer' characters (except I think Nemesis, which is on the limited pull banner), dont get their heals until you get at least one duplicate pull.....

luckily you get a lot of free pulls just by playing. I wouldn't even consider worrying about gacha all that much until you're closing out the second act, which is probably somewhere around 3 or 4 hours of play time if you're just rushing through and not exploring that much. 

I hate games where people stand by tier lists, most characters in tof are enough to get you through. Personally I think Zero has one of the coolest weapons. I'd be happy just to pull him. 

Mendel

The very concept of mobile-to-PC ports is repugnant to me.  They're trying to force me to envision my 104-key keyboard as some kind of 8 key peripheral.  It's not working.  I paid for this ] key, I'm using it.

Slapshot1188

Mendel said:

The very concept of mobile-to-PC ports is repugnant to me.  They're trying to force me to envision my 104-key keyboard as some kind of 8 key peripheral.  It's not working.  I paid for this ] key, I'm using it.

Yup

Iselin

maskedweasel said:

Dattelis said:

As long as people know its gacha, then it is what it is, just dont be surprised seeing people wanting particular people that have a particular number of stars on their weapon to join groups. One thing I do have a gripe with is that the 'healer' characters (except I think Nemesis, which is on the limited pull banner), dont get their heals until you get at least one duplicate pull.....

luckily you get a lot of free pulls just by playing. I wouldn't even consider worrying about gacha all that much until you're closing out the second act, which is probably somewhere around 3 or 4 hours of play time if you're just rushing through and not exploring that much. 

Kind of like looking forward to getting beat up because they're not going to hit you on the face at first

McFear

Maybe, but ONLY if they give me a whole bunch of FREE stuff!... What's that you say?...

Kratier

ill check it out , but telling you all to limit expectations, it wont be anywhere near as good as genshin's first impressions

maskedweasel

Kratier said:

ill check it out , but telling you all to limit expectations, it wont be anywhere near as good as genshin's first impressions

It was better imo. 

Warlyx

yep , is summer so anything is wellcome

Kratier

uh i downloaded it, and installed it on my phone, servers arent up, so it definitely hasnt launched. just a preload apparently

maskedweasel

Kratier said:

uh i downloaded it, and installed it on my phone, servers arent up, so it definitely hasnt launched. just a preload apparently

I think it goes live around 7pm pacific time? 

Kratier

yeah looking at the site says not for another hour and a half

Dattelis

maskedweasel said:

Dattelis said:

As long as people know its gacha, then it is what it is, just dont be surprised seeing people wanting particular people that have a particular number of stars on their weapon to join groups.

One thing I do have a gripe with is that the 'healer' characters (except I think Nemesis, which is on the limited pull banner), dont get their heals until you get at least one duplicate pull.....

luckily you get a lot of free pulls just by playing. I wouldn't even consider worrying about gacha all that much until you're closing out the second act, which is probably somewhere around 3 or 4 hours of play time if you're just rushing through and not exploring that much. 

I hate games where people stand by tier lists, most characters in tof are enough to get you through. Personally I think Zero has one of the coolest weapons. I'd be happy just to pull him. 

Unfortunately, not a lot of people understand how gacha's work and in many cases, tier lists hold to a degree depending on how many duplicates you need for that character to perform their role. As I mentioned before, the 2 'permanent' banner healers, can't even heal without at least one duplicate, so you're kind of boned if you want to play a healer and dont have luck on your side. You do get the token things to counter that to a degree by being able to buy the weapon you want after a certain number of pulls, but again, its just best to keep people informed if they haven't played a game like this before. If people are coming from genshin to this, then I'm sure they wont mind much and may even prefer this gacha system to that one.

KnightFalz

maskedweasel said:

Kratier said:

uh i downloaded it, and installed it on my phone, servers arent up, so it definitely hasnt launched. just a preload apparently

I think it goes live around 7pm pacific time? 

Central time.

Rienni

I tried logging in at 8:40 est and promptly got a login error and was kicked back to desktop. I'm thinking the servers are getting crushed and can't take any more players. Ok, 2nd try and I am to the main screen. I click the mouse to launch and get some server error message.

jitter77

I had to log out cause my mom called now in have a 9hr queue

Kenny39

Dattelis said:

maskedweasel said:

Dattelis said:

As long as people know its gacha, then it is what it is, just dont be surprised seeing people wanting particular people that have a particular number of stars on their weapon to join groups.

One thing I do have a gripe with is that the 'healer' characters (except I think Nemesis, which is on the limited pull banner), dont get their heals until you get at least one duplicate pull.....

luckily you get a lot of free pulls just by playing. I wouldn't even consider worrying about gacha all that much until you're closing out the second act, which is probably somewhere around 3 or 4 hours of play time if you're just rushing through and not exploring that much. 

I hate games where people stand by tier lists, most characters in tof are enough to get you through. Personally I think Zero has one of the coolest weapons. I'd be happy just to pull him. 

Unfortunately, not a lot of people understand how gacha's work and in many cases, tier lists hold to a degree depending on how many duplicates you need for that character to perform their role. As I mentioned before, the 2 'permanent' banner healers, can't even heal without at least one duplicate, so you're kind of boned if you want to play a healer and dont have luck on your side. You do get the token things to counter that to a degree by being able to buy the weapon you want after a certain number of pulls, but again, its just best to keep people informed if they haven't played a game like this before. If people are coming from genshin to this, then I'm sure they wont mind much and may even prefer this gacha system to that one.

Yeah, it's also sad that any gacha creates the fake appearance that f2p is enough to play comfortably. No matter what gacha I played, there always was the point where I had to invest at least a little bit to keep going.

chelvaric

as long as i can get hilda and shiro ill be happy

(and if it isn't blocked in my region because of loot boxes)

Scot

Mendel said:

The very concept of mobile-to-PC ports is repugnant to me.  They're trying to force me to envision my 104-key keyboard as some kind of 8 key peripheral.  It's not working.  I paid for this ] key, I'm using it.

Just like the PC control system suffered from console first development, now both PC and console suffer from mobile first development. You didn't mention the restriction to UI and visual acuity such small screens leads to, we did not get those problems from consoles, that's all down to mobile.

Akulas

Was taking forever to kill stuff on the starter character then got some Scyth dude that 1 hits everything. So, guess I'm playing that unless something better comes along and see how far it can carry me without paying anything for the game.